The Inside Line

The first time I tied on a Whopper Plopper in Mexico, my longtime guide gave me the side eye and then laughed. Five minutes later, he wasn’t laughing. The fish had clearly never seen anything lik …

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Some anglers identify completely and wholeheartedly as tournament bass anglers. They live, eat, sleep, and breathe the competition lifestyle. Others are exclusively dry fly fishermen for wild …

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It finally happened. After fishing for more than 40 years, nearly 30 of them semi-seriously, I pulled the ultimate goober move last week at El Salto. Luckily I was in the right place for it.  …

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For most of the past decade, my wife, Hanna, and I have been fortunate enough to take two trips a year to Mexico for bass. Usually the first one comes in January or February, just to escape the c …

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For years, I was jealous of my wife Hanna, not only because she seemingly caught big fish effortlessly, but because she had so many new ways left to catch them. She didn’t catch her firs …

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Thirty years into the industry, I’m under no illusions that anyone is ever going to ask me for serious feedback on what lures to produce, how to make them better, or what colors they should add t …

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